
For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native American languages. Harrington amassed over a million pages of notes on over 150 different tribal languages. Some of these languages were considered dead until his notes were discovered. Today tribes are accessing the notes, reviving their once dormant languages, and bringing together a new generation of language learners in the hope of saving Native languages.

as Self - John P. Harrington's assistant

as Self - Harrington biographer, UC Berkeley

as Self - Barbareño Chumash, daughter of last native speaker

as Self - Mojave Elder

as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

as Self - Prof Emeritus of Linguistics UC Berkeley

as Self - Linguist

as Self - Fort Mojave Tribe

as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

as Self - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

as Self - Prof of Anthropology, Humboldt State

as Self - Prof Emerita of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ